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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 19.

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Maryland

By Gustavus P. Rodgers

BALTIMORE.—The colored brethren of the Chesapeake Conference are looking forward to this summer's work, in tent, hall, and church efforts, for the doubling of their membership in this part of the field. At this time the most urgent need to help accomplish this is strong, consecrated workers to engage in tent and other efforts as self-supporting laborers.
The city of Baltimore, where a strong tent effort is being planned, has a colored population of 90,000, some of whom are well-to-do. In this conference there are 275,900 colored persons, and not one regular canvasser in it. We invite those among our colored brethren who have a deep burden for their people, to come to this city or elsewhere in the conference, and help win souls to this message of truth. The conference brethren will furnish free rooms to those who come, provided they will assist in the tent work at nights, and sell magazines or books for the rest of their support.
Some years ago when this conference had colored colporteurs, they earned an excellent living and had rich experiences, and the outlook today is just as bright. In Testimonies for the Church, Vol. IX, page 207, we read: "Among the colored believers there are many who can labor to advantage for their own people,—workers to whom the Lord has given light and knowledge, and who possess capabilities of no mean order." Will these who in humility feel that God has given them a knowledge of the truth and a burden for souls quench the Spirit's pleadings to go work today in the vineyard of the Master? Can any refuse to take up the grandest work in the message, that of missionary colportage, and remain indifferent to this call to "come over and help us"? The Chesapeake Conference needs more colored believers, more colored churches, and this will mean more of our people saved in the kingdom. The time is fast coming when we must pitch the tent, and we are anxious that those who are to connect with this work write at once to Elder R. T. Baer, 1611 Ellamont St., or to the writer, at 1901 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md.
Gustavus P. Rodgers.